- Title
- Hero, Man or Animal? Interpreting the Old Man in 'Old Man at the Bridge
- Author/Creator
- Denis Casey
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.44(2), pp.108-114
- Annotation
- The old man at the center of Hemingway's 1938 short story "Old Man at the Bridge" has generally been viewed positively, often seen as a stoic "Hemingway Hero." However, here it is argued that Hemingway encourages sympathy for the old man not through his humanity, but rather by dehumanizing him, depicting how war reduced him to the state of an animal, even in the eyes of seemingly compassionate Republicans. This aligns with Adam Long's view that a key theme in works such as In Our Time and A Farewell to Arms is the "transference of human tragedy onto animals."
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015417571503691
Journal article
Hero, Man or Animal? Interpreting the Old Man in 'Old Man at the Bridge
Hemingway Review, Vol.44(2), pp.108-114
2025
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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